Tai Daeng language
| Tai Daeng | |
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| Red Tai Táy-Môc-Châu |
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| Tay l ɛ ɛ ŋ | |
| Native to | Vietnam, Laos |
| Region | Western Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam; Southeastern Houaphan Province, Laos |
| Ethnicity | Tai Daeng |
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Native speakers
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100,000 (1995–2007) |
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Tai–Kadai
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | taid1249 |
Distribution of the Southwestern Tai languages.
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Tai Daeng, Táy-Môc-Châu or Red Tai is the language of the Tai Daeng people of northwestern Vietnam and across the border into northeastern Laos. It belongs to the Tai language family, being closely connected with Black Tai and White Tai, as well as being more distantly related to the language spoken in modern Thailand, heretofore referred to as Siamese. Classified as part of the Thái official ethnic community in Vietnam and of the Phu Tai composite group in Laos. However, speakers in Vietnam tend to identify with Black Tai, or Tai Dam, thus denying that they are Red Tai.
Tai Daeng is classified as belonging to the Tai-Kadai language group located across India and Southeast Asia, located in the Tai languages and Southwestern Tai languages subgroups.
Proto-Tai is the reconstructed common ancestor from which all of the Tai language family is descended, including Tai Daeng. Proto-Tai has been linguistically reconstructed using the comparative method by Fang-Kuei Li in 1977 and by Pittayawat Pittayaporn in 2009.
Dating the separations of various branches of the Tai language tree from their ancestral Proto-Tai and their respective evolutions into modern languages is inexact and frequently subject to debate. Pittayaporn’s work on the reconstruction of Proto-Tai posits that the split between Proto-Tai and Proto-Southwestern Tai likely occurred during the 8th-10th centuries, citing the presence and development of Chinese loan words in Proto-Southwestern Tai Within the Southwestern Tai language family, internal classification is still a matter of dispute and is complicated by the high degree of linguistic diffusion and convergence present in Mainland Southeast Asia, with even genealogically unrelated languages measuring closely on Dahl’s typological distance. However, the spread of the Tai peoples is generally attested to have occurred over millennia as southward movements from China towards the lowlands of MSEA in a shift which produced a commensurate cultural and linguistic change
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